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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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The Princess Beatrice Hospital.
The present accommodation is 81 beds. The hospital when completed will provide an
additional 57 beds, making a total of 138 beds, a nurses' home, a post-mortem and pathological
department, administration offices, etc.
The work performed at the hospital during 1930 was as follows:—
| 1,346 | |
| 237 | |
| Total number of new out-patients | 13,040 |
| „ „ „ out-patients' attendances | 62,791 |
| Number of casualties | 5,812 |
| Number of operations—major | 992 |
| minor | 762-1,754 |
| Dental cases | 2,197 |
| Massage | 4,604 |
| Light treatments | 1,298 |
| Superficial therapy | 629 |
| Patients X-rayed | 2,719 |
| Total number of attendances | 1,452 |
| Number of patients admitted to maternity ward | 313 |
The Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children.
This institution meets the medical and surgical needs of the children in North Kensington
and adjacent districts. In addition to a large out-patient department, there is an in-patient
department of 81 beds. The hospital is now a recognised training school for nurses.
There are X-ray, dental, ophthalmic and massage departments and a fully equipped operating
theatre.
The beds are allocated as follows:—
| General medical | 39 | Skin | 1 |
| General surgical | 20 | Observation ward | 4 |
| Ear, nose and throat | 9 | Private ward | 2 |
| Rheumatism | 4 | Nursing mothers' ward | 1 |
| Eye | 1 | Total | 81 |
The following are figures of work done during 1936.
| Total number of available beds on 31st December, 1936 | 81 |
| Average number of available beds during year | 75.90 |
| „ „ ,, patients resident daily throughout year | 65.85 |
| Number of in-patients in the hospital at beginning of year | 60 |
| „ „ ,, admitted during year | 1,524 |
| „ „ „ in the hospital at end of year | 58 |
| Total number of in-patients | 1,584 |
| Average number of days each patient was resident | 15.79 |
| Number of patients admitted and discharged during year who were resident for (i) only 1 day | 19 |
| (ii) 2 and 3 days | 503 |
| Total number of new out-patients | 6,075 |
| Total number of out-patients' attendances | 42,974 |
| Number of casualty patients among new out-patients | 1,598 |